Every time I eat animal crackers, I have the urge to pluck out all the elephants from the whole bag and put them in a cute bowl to give to Motherbumper - but then I realize that that would mean me pawing through them all, and well, ick, so I stop myself.

A "tusk-free" gene typically found in 2-5% of male Asian elephants is now showing up in 5-10 percent of elephants in China, according to a Beijing zoologist who has been studying the creatures since 1999.